The leadership of the Labour Party is his for the asking!
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The leadership of the Labour Party is his for the asking!
Interviewer to Eric and Ernie: What would you have been if you hadn't become comedians?
Eric: Mike and Bernie Winters.
(true story)
Eric: Mike and Bernie Winters.
(true story)
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Interviewer to Eric and Ernie: What would you have been if you hadn't become comedians?
Eric: Mike and Bernie Winters.
(true story)
Eric: Mike and Bernie Winters.
(true story)
Who am I to disagree?
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Who am I to disagree?
I did a Coleridge (see earlier post). Anybody done Wordsworth or Betjeman yet?
October 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I did a Coleridge (see earlier post). Anybody done Wordsworth or Betjeman yet?
So twice five cubits, grand and large
The statue stood with proud visage
But long since the vain erection fell
And only trunkless legs do stand
That of his vast ambitions tell
Nought else remains but level sand.
2/2
The statue stood with proud visage
But long since the vain erection fell
And only trunkless legs do stand
That of his vast ambitions tell
Nought else remains but level sand.
2/2
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
So twice five cubits, grand and large
The statue stood with proud visage
But long since the vain erection fell
And only trunkless legs do stand
That of his vast ambitions tell
Nought else remains but level sand.
2/2
The statue stood with proud visage
But long since the vain erection fell
And only trunkless legs do stand
That of his vast ambitions tell
Nought else remains but level sand.
2/2
Harry Skies, dodgy geezer down Petticoat Lane, always got something iffy in his pockets, hence the moniker.
October 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Harry Skies, dodgy geezer down Petticoat Lane, always got something iffy in his pockets, hence the moniker.
Is it varifocals time?
October 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Is it varifocals time?
What do you mean, in the future?
October 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
What do you mean, in the future?
You didn't suggest that walking about with placards didn't actually do anything except make them feel good, did you? Tut.
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
You didn't suggest that walking about with placards didn't actually do anything except make them feel good, did you? Tut.
So long as they never tell you to stick to narrow gauge.
October 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
So long as they never tell you to stick to narrow gauge.
233 millimetres can have a big effect.
October 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
233 millimetres can have a big effect.
Different track gauges between Spain and France might have had something to do with it.
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Different track gauges between Spain and France might have had something to do with it.
This is true, but I was mostly aiming for the pseudo intellectual tendency to automatically sneer at anything that dare to be popular.
October 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This is true, but I was mostly aiming for the pseudo intellectual tendency to automatically sneer at anything that dare to be popular.